Celebrate sunshine, sweet treats, and summer fun with And Then Comes Summer activities. They’re playfully designed to build English Language Arts skills through seasonal exploration. Students will illustrate summer scenes, sequence the perfect summer day, and engage with vocabulary through alphabetizing, unscrambling, and sentence writing. With hands-on activities like counting summer objects, solving picture puzzles, and categorizing story elements, learners strengthen comprehension while connecting to the joys of the season. Collaborative games and conversations bring even more energy to the experience, making this set perfect for end-of-year learning, summer programs, or warm-weather classroom fun.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Color summer treats to show favorite flavors.
• Illustrate summer settings and activities.
• Sequence a perfect summer day.
• Alphabetize and unscramble words from the story.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Categorize elements from the story.
• Complete a word search.
• Solve a Sudoku picture puzzle.
• Count summer objects.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Collaborate with others to guess summer-themed words.
• Develop understanding through conversation.

With these activities, students don’t just read about summer—they imagine it, create it, and celebrate it together.

💙 For even more read-aloud fun, these learning activities bring sunshine and learning together in the best way!

💙 After downloading the activities, enjoy the story with your Novel Effect soundscape for a read-aloud full of summer sights and sounds.

About the Book

A joyful, sun-drenched tribute to the anticipation and adventures of the warmest season of the year.

Don’t have the book yet? Grab your copy and let students dive into the joy and wonder of summer!